July 21, 2025 • 39 mins
Rob and Kelvin debate whether the WNBA players are justified for wanting a bigger piece of league-generated revenue, tell us if we can expect the much-anticipated Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao rematch to actually happen, and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob's nightly bets. Plus, FOX Sports NFL reporter Henry McKenna swings by to discuss Micah Parsons' ugly contract negotiations with the Dallas Cowboys, if the Detroit Lions are poised to take a step back next season, and much more!
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Man, Mages City, Monday. Good to be here, the gang's
all here. Uh, feeling good on a long weekend?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Weekend? Was good? Anything in particular? Yeah? No, no, no,
Ready for a little vaca? So you know, matter fact?
Is this a mariage? Am I really looking at the
real rock? Let me look what because I'm taking time.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I got back that he came and he got back
to you left Rob Sterling Junior acting like Rob Sterling Jr.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Right now, there's too much time. It's piled up.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I went to I went to ten months without taking
any time off. Wow, So now I got to kind
of wedge it in between now and football.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
So you ain't lying because same thing, you know, with
the two jobs I got. It's just they both told
me like, hey, matter of fact, the boss is here. Boss.
I asked Boss how much time I got off left?
He gave a thumbs down. I think he just said, no, oh,
now he don't hear me. No, hear me all the time,
but the time I'm asking him, he don't hear me.
So I think they're faking the conversation right now. Yeah, Rudebaker, Rudby, Rudebaka,
(03:00):
Rudebaga that they don't have to listen to me exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, never heard of when you're gone? When do you
I'm working tomorrow and I'm off after that tomorrow. You're luck.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I might be in there or I don't know if
you might not even bring leggage. You might bring it's
buying clothes.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Are you ready? Yes? Only me now? Is you ready? Oh? Boy,
tell me?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I already shipped my clothes to my best friend's house
to him and his wife in DC.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Let me tell you who was mad when she got
that Amazon pick up? You know that, Like the wife
was like what is this? He was like, oh, here
goes the new supplies. He shipped his T shirt.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yes, that's exactly, and some clothes. I'm going out Friday night,
you know what I mean. But but the whole thing
was it's more expensive. I know this sounds crazy, more
expensive for the bags.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's more expensive. So I ship it to him, which
costs you how much costs twenty eight? Ship cost fifty
to take one way. And remember I'm like making four stops.
So every every time I take, I go from you know,
(04:12):
Dallas to DC to Houston to New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
That's kind of my track. It's gonna cost me at
fifty dollars every time. That's why that's two hundred something
dollars in bag fees. So I shipped it to him.
I'll take a few things to go with me. Ship
it to him, wear that over the weekend and stuff.
Leave that to the Salvation Army. Throw the underclose out and.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Then I think the extra hundred dollars spits for me,
making my head spend.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Make it makes sense. I love it though, I love
That's why you are you? All right?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Let's welcome in the odd Couple crew. We wouldn't be
able to do this fine radio program without him. Rob
g is our producer, Alex's our engineer, Steve the Saga
anchor desk, and.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Elijah social Media Google never heard of him. Man, he
can't get it one day, one day, one day, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
All right, at least got to be in February. Right, yeah,
we'll get there. All right, let's get the We got
a lot to get going, a lot to talk about
on this show.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And uh, let's start with the w n B A
rob G, can you uh let us know what happened
over the weekend the NBA, the w NBA All Star
Game that came out with T shirts on and uh,
you know they claim they're ready to whatever is necessary.
They're gonna walk out and they want more money and
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all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Rob G.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
That's right ahead of the w NBA All Star Game. Robin,
know you never missed the BBNBA All.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Star You know I never met was that this weekend?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That was this weekend? Rob I want you to know
this real quick. Rob G is a commy uh sympathizer.
We're go ahead, rober.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
All right, we gotta make sure we did stage first
before the All Star Game, all right. Two days before that,
forty players met with the league offices in their latest
round of their CBA negotiations.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
All right now.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
According to multiple reports, the players did not think that
the meeting was very productive. They didn't think that it
was helpful. They were very upset about what happened during
that meeting. So ahead of the All Star Game, which
is for a lot of them, the biggest night of
the year. Players on both sides, including Kaitlin Clark, wore
black shirts during warmups that read pay us what you
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owe us.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Originally I thought it said well filled queens on it.
But how muche last it?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
All?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Right? So this is where it got interesting, right.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You saw the shirts, you know the ww ED Yeah
I thought welfare. Yeah, notty lost but money for thirty years?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
What do you want? I know?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So this is where the conversation you get government cheese
at a ball, Go ahead, stop it.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Government cheese was good for real cheese. That's it, as
only time is good.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
No, this is where it gets complicated, right, because the
WNBA hasn't made a profit in a general sense of
making profits for the last for all these years, and
it's averaging since it started around ten million dollars deficit
each each year.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
That's what it's operating on.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But when you start to dive deeper into it, more
so than just the simple math, is where it gets complicated.
I think the average person, especially on X Instagram threads
in each site isn't doing the deep dive.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
So WNBA players are simply saying this, Rob.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
We are saying most leagues in the NBA, NHL, NBA, NFL,
they're making around fifty percent of the revenue that comes
in fifty percent. The WNBA is only making how much
you think, thirty, no, twenty, no, ten, no nine percent.
So they're saying, hey, we're only making nine percent, our
counterparts are making fifty percent of the revenue driven. And
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then somebody was say, well, what revenue and what's going on? Well,
certain good things have happened in favorable for the league,
which was gonna be in turn favorable for the players
who are essentially the product. The league has secured a
new lucrative two point two billion dollar media rights deal
to begin in twenty twenty six next year, which is
expected to significantly increase revenue. So if you don't stand
on it now, Rob, you know this from business standpoint,
(08:20):
how am I gonna get it? If I just go
with the flow, all right, give me nine percent of yet,
then I'm not gonna get any of that two point
two billion. But if I say, hey, we got to
negotiate and go up to you know, two en fifteen
to twenty twenty five, whatever, however high they can take it.
That's to me what simply, that's just simple good business man. Also,
the attendance is up twenty six percent, you and I
have talked about that, twenty three percent.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Viewership is up.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And also merchandise, which is huge because you get percentage
of those sales is up forty percent, nearly half, nearly
fifty percent. So simply, what they're doing is saying, hey,
if there is money to be made, which clearly there
are not to mention two hundred and fifty million dollars
they're getting for the new the new WNBA teams, a
new franchise fees that goes to ownership, that's split by ownership.
(09:03):
That's right, that players don't get that, right, But all
of this is going into a pot. No, no, but
that doesn't go into a pot. That's what owners get.
That's part of why owners they get the expansion fee,
because you're letting somebody in on your right. What I'm
saying is if you're taking this information, you're saying nobody's
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investing in, not thinking they're going to potentially make money, right,
you're not allowing new leagues. A new franchise has come
without the idea of we're gonna make money. And so
I think what we're seeing is simply them saying we
want more of what is to come, what is being
had two point two billion in the media rights deal,
forty percent, merchandise is up, twenty six percent, attendance is up.
We want more, And I think that's fair. And the
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thing about a protest is it's not comfortable. Usually people
don't like it. You don't like the timing of I
wish you did it differently, y T shirts?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Why not this?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
That happens whatever you pick at George Floyd to Vietnam
students against Vietnam War, like, no one's ever gonna like
when you protest, you're nearling the it's not the time,
it's not the place. So generally a protest is to
make you uncomfortable, to draw conversation, to have, you know,
some type of dialogue about these things.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And that's what they did.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So they got to find a way continue to grow
the league, continue to allow the lead to become make
money and become profitable. But I'm not mad at somebody
trying to say, hey, if more money is coming in,
our counterparts are get more, why can't we I think
that's you. I would I mean, I have the mes
speak for myself. I would advocate for myself as well.
I totally disagree. And I dare the WNBA players. I
(10:33):
dare you walk out. I dare you to walk out,
Go ahead and walk out. I double dare you, cause
despite Caitlin Clark, despite all this stuff, they still lost forty.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Million dollars this past year. There was no bonanza. She's
at her height.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
If you're losing money at her height, how in the
world going forward?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
It ain't going up that orderically.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You just had the biggest bump and you still lost
forty million dollars. I dare a union to walk out.
I dare you players, because it ain't gonna be pretty.
You can't collect money for thirty years. This ain't some
new league that started and you understand it gonna take
a little while and make money. They were subsidized by
(11:23):
the NBA. I know firstthand in Detroit. They didn't want
the shock the commissioner. They begged them please.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I know.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Personally that when they were winning no championships, they couldn't
sell tickets. They could not sell tickets. They're a full
building because they were giving them away. And all I'm
saying is you gotta crawl before you walk. And I
understand wanting more, but are you accounting for the thirty
(11:59):
years a red ink that under normal circumstances you would
not have had a league? These these football leagues that
keep starting up, usf ulfl all these things.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Everybody love that. All I'm over told is everybody loves football, right,
why don't those leagues last?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
You know, mean those leagues have folded because they don't
sell They don't sell tickets.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
The TV numbers aren't good enough. And you can say
whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Kaylin Clark when she's not playing, the ratings went down
fifty five percent.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Those are facts, not feelings.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
When she wasn't gonna announce that she wasn't gonna play
the WNBA, the tickets dropped off the face of the earth.
I'm not saying you're not entitled to money, but it's
based off of what you bring in. Devin Booker's making
gonna make seventy five million dollars a year, not because
they like him, not because he's a man. That's the
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revenue that is brought in right and over time time
that can happen. But come on, man, this is way
too premature. And if I'm running a w NBA, or
I'm the NBA that owns the w n b A,
I'm not going for the yokie dope because Caitlyn Clark
showed up and now we're gonna there's still plenty of
(13:16):
buildings where six thousand people show up.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Okay, And then that's my point. I hear you twisted,
don't get it twisted.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I double dare them to walk out because you won't
have a league. There's no guarantir. There's no guarantee the
league will sustain another five, ten, twenty years like that.
No business, I don't care the model. They can be
a restaurant, it could be a movie theater, it doesn't matter,
is guaranteed to succeed. That's just business, one on one.
No business is guaranteed to succeed. That's why I brought
up the football all. We only won NFL.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
They've been NFL. It's only one and I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
But when you go back to the only thing if again,
if you're looking at this, if you're the WNBA, who's
seeing this growth when you look at the numbers, and
they're also saying, all right, it took sports leagues decades
to get viable as well, because when you look at
the NBA thirty years, the NBA took them forty years
to make money. Thirty years. Yes, if you look at it,
(14:16):
they took NBA lost.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Who owned the WNBA?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Was that outside or did the league subsidize to even
make that viable. It's what I'm saying. The NBA was
its own entity. Right, Wait, right, but I'm talking about
the NBA. I'm saying the NBA didn't make money. They
lost thirteen million dollars in nineteen eighty. That's the year
Magic comes in, Berg comes in and then things take
off and they changed. That was forty years of the NBA.
They still lost ten thirteen million dollars, which if you
(14:42):
did the math into twenty twenty five, that'd be forty
eight million dollars. So all I'm saying is it takes
some time.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
We think what it's the same you think during that
till no, no, no money. Okay, I'm saying, do you
think because I was watching the NBA and I was
going to games, they didn't have four thousand people.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
They didn't have five thousand like. The league had.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
A up and down period, There's no doubt about it.
That was a down period before Birden Magic. Yes, but
there was some glory times before. But they were making
like that. No, but they were considering. Teams were considering
how to get out of it, how to get out
of business. How they were tired of those teams that
they weren't making money. So I'm not saying the WN
be able to ever be the NBA, but I'm saying businesses, no,
businesses take time. Lost so many business that we now love,
(15:26):
we don't know the history that it took him twenty
thirty forty years to become profitable. That's why people keep
investing in these business Even Amazon, it took him a
decade to have a profitable year.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
It just takes time, is all I'm saying. And I
understand why the players, Yeah, I mean it took the
thirty years.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
They have their Messiah and they still lost four Now
that's why if you negotiate where you have, you you're massigah.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
But but you lost.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
If you had if you had a plus on a
balance sheet, then maybe I'd say, Okay, I saw it.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I saw the future. No, no, we want now, we
want charter flights. Now we want you start adding all
that that. They didn't have that before. So the losses
were minimal, now they're gigantic forty million. They got plenty
of empty buildings, TV waitings. Let's let's be realistic. I'm
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not a This is a supply and demand market, right.
The reason that the Dodgers paid shoel tiny seven hundred million.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Go look at the stern styles, go to the games.
Go look at the number on us like two point six. Now,
just the thing on the news, two point six. They're
heading toward another four million, four million.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Four million people are going to Dodger games. That's all
I'm saying, Like, like, you can't deny that. The money
that's there, all right, eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
We want to get people involved. Yeah, hit them up,
hit us up, eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
And Uh, it's real simple. Uh did you have a
problem with the w NBA T shirts?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Do they deserve more money?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
We'll continue that conversation next with you on a Magic
City Monday. Uh. They don't want dollar bills thrown. They
want with the big Money. I just want you to
know that it is the Odd Couple city that's good.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
His majesty Money. We ain't got to be a man, okay,
Rob Parker, Kelvin, we ain't never doing the first shot
at a WNBA game. I don't even know if that's
the thing. First pitch, first shot a Fox Sports ware.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
You know what you need to do, stick and stay.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Unless you're anybody from the WNBA in the US of
A that ain't staying with him.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
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Oh yeah, yeah, you over there.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Dan saw me in Magic City last week, which is
somebody did you? And was it Isaac Howell whatever? Lloyd Howe? Yeah,
Lloyd how Lloyd Howe? You and him getting it in?
Were you a part of his seven hundred and something
dollars limobile?
Speaker 9 (18:53):
Nah?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Now, see Rob would have the driver, come inside, that's
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Yeah, seven hundred dollar bill afterwards. All right, it's the
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Speaker 3 (19:15):
Radio videos on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
We're gonna take a couple of calls real quick, WNBA,
pay us what we're old?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Is what they say? Rob says, don't pay them nothing.
Say that.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
We'll just say you said welfare eight seven seven ninety
nine one Fox.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I say, hey, ain't they only fighting for what they
trying to get? I'm at at them? What you got?
Eric and Ohio, you're under the old couple of Fox
Thoughts Radio. What's up? All right?
Speaker 10 (19:40):
You're gonna love this.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
I'll move to Phoenix in twenty twelve, live there till
twenty sixteen.
Speaker 10 (19:46):
And Fries grocery store owned by Kroger. If you spend
over fifty dollars and imagine the size of the family's
out there, you spent over fifty dollars. You got two
free tickets to a Phoenix Mercury game. The year was
out there, they won the championship, and you know how
the games I went to?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
How many zero? The same as Rob.
Speaker 10 (20:09):
But you know what, if I want to.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Pay bloods though, tear up the court and get two
free tickets and spitting bucks.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
On there every night, I'll spend fifty dollars a day
to go to the whole season exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
And they have a hard time selling tickets. I'm just
telling you, Like.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Listen, I'm not denying what is factual, Like, not every
game is sold out, Not every game is you know,
big time TV buzz without a doubt. Michael in Texas,
you're on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
What's up, Michael, Hey, fella, let me raft a little bit.
I think it's a losing strategy to compare yourself to
the NBA with these t shirts pays what you owe us.
Whoever brought that up should be fired. They're not and
they're not likable. They're very hard to root for with.
Speaker 10 (20:49):
This behavior because they've been losing money.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
I've never heard one WNBA player come out and say
thank you NBA for keeping us a float on.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
We're gonna We're gonna do it one day. They to money,
and they're not the product. The most important thing. The
product just isn't.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
There yet, Michael, your spot on, Michael, But.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Yeah, let me finish. Some can shoot well, but until
they get more athletic, play, more above the rim, it's
just not a product that's gonna make money. I'd rather
go out and watch a high end high school game
like I used to watch in doubt. I used to
see Lincoln High School with Chris Bosh. I'd rather watch
that than these entitled brats.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You gotgang, Hey, Tony Dcase, I know a lot of
these you've never been to negotiations, Rob, while I am
hearing that you've never had to handle some business, Tony
in DC, A couple of Fox Sports Radio, what's up?
Speaker 9 (21:42):
Hey, what's up? Fellows, Hope, I've enjoying your day. I
with Rob on this, man. I think they're in for
a rude awakening, that they think they're really more important
than what they are. And it's it's their background singers
to the NFL, the NBA, MLB and each know. Nobody
seems for the WNB.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
I respect their.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Talent, their biggest, their biggest tsunami Kating Carks, she's got
exposed and now she's injury prone. So who's on the
horizon juju. There's just nobody that is going to be
captivating the nation like that in that sport, especially during
summertime because after fourth of July, MLB heats up with
(22:23):
the penning races and MLB they had their dead spot
and now MLB's back on the rise, changes and everything,
so they're playing with fire here.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
That's all I'm saying, no doubt, Tony, thanks, le squeeze
one more and Drew in New Jersey, you're on the.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. Drew, what's up?
Speaker 11 (22:41):
I say, let's just go not pay them and say
whatever and if you think, if you want to just
go by quotes. Remember Britney Grinder once stated, I used
to love going to games because there's a good time
to go have peaceful reading time.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Is that what she said?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
She said you could go.
Speaker 11 (22:58):
Read a book. Used to able to go read the
booking piece.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Very nice on the bench.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Appreciate it. The only thing, the only thing I say,
Robin yb we'll break here with us. Steve is, I'm
not arguing that the teams are super packed and not
none of that. That's factual, we see it. But when
you're coming from a business standpoint in there and if
the if the merchandise is up forty percent, the attendance
is up, but they were still lost.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
But they still lost forty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
There's a two point two billion dollar investment which is
coming to the revenue side from a media in they're saying,
instead of nine percent, we want more that.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I don't understand how it was deniable?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Easy easy because for thirty years the league put out
the money you want it?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Can we take that money back? The losses for thirty
years to keep the league?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Why? But why would I think? Because it wasn't separate.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
This wasn't people started the WNBA like people started the NBA.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
They did.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
The NBA started it as an army need that a
little bit of money.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Okay, the NBA is doing where a Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
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Speaker 3 (24:08):
All right, Steve, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
We are the OT couple, Rob Parker Kevin Washington on
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Fox Sports NFL reporter Henry C.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
McKenna on AX. Henry, what's going on?
Speaker 10 (24:21):
Hey guys? How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Way? How are you?
Speaker 11 (24:25):
Man?
Speaker 10 (24:26):
You know? Football season's almost here and it's about to
be a busy life's getting Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
It's about to get busy. Will you go ahead? We'll
start here.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Rob and I were talking about this last week and
then all of a sudden, more you know, more insight
to it coming out in the last twenty four hours.
What the heck is happening with Dallas? And you see
what they were being down Dallas is Dallas in right now?
Jerry is doing Jerry waiting on to sign people. And
now you gotta disgruntle Michael Parsons. What's going on down there.
Speaker 10 (24:52):
In Big d Yeah, I mean Dallas. Dwasings as aggressively
as they've ever done. This is this particular Mic Parsons
situation is really messy. And then you know, I don't
I don't know if you guys played the sound bite
or anything, but Jerry Jones, you know, kind of goes
after Michael Parsons in a weirdly passive aggressive way about
(25:13):
missing games and about stars missing games, and Jones is like, well,
even if I signed Marca Parsons to a long term deal,
you know, there's no guarantee that we're even going to
have him because he's missed I think I think Jones
says six games. Yeah, uh, and it actually Parsons only
missed four. But basically, you know, Jones kind of taking shots,
(25:33):
trying to win the court of public opinion. It's not
working because he's he's lost. In my opinion, he's lost,
you know, his fastball. Jerry Jones has in terms of,
you know, just being the salesman that he that he
once was. And this situation is it just Dallas has
waited so long. They've they've procrastinated their deals one after
(25:55):
another that they're losing their you know, they're creating ill
will between them and they're ours. And even when they
do get the contract and they pay them exorbitant amount
of money, you know, there's still pension left over from
being mistreated during the contract negotiating process. This is what
Bill Belichick used to do with his players. But you
know what solved it winning a Super Bowl Dallas. Meanwhile,
(26:16):
it has been a mess trying to make the playoffs,
and they're probably going to have just as much problems
in the NFC East this year, which is got the
Eagles and the Commanders.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
But don't they Jerry eventually rolls over.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
I mean like he did it with the Dak thing,
you know, like forever, it looks like they didn't have
any real confidence or belief that he was that guy,
and then all of a sudden he got a sixty
million dollar contract right before the season started. I don't
understand that. The longer you take, the more it's gonna
cost you. So I just don't I don't get it
at all. What the what the game plan is? If
(26:48):
you're going to keep Michael Parsons, that's one thing. If not,
you could get a haul for him, right, you should
have traded him. If you don't want to sign a
love well, it's just it's it's mind boggling er.
Speaker 10 (26:59):
I don't understand it either. They did this with Ceedee
Lamb too. You know, he's trying to maybe he's trying
to pinch pennies, he's trying to save himself some guaranteed
millions and try and work, you know, some conditions into detail.
I don't know why he's not just paying the best
defensive player in football maybe with the exception of Miles Garrett.
(27:20):
Why why don't you just pay the guy? You know
he's going to be a core member of your defense
for forever. And like you said, the time to trade
him was a few months ago, right draft? Probably? Uh,
And so you know, I don't know, I don't like.
I just I rarely like what Jerry Jones is doing.
So I don't I don't feel like I'm giving you
guys something totally unique here.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
But no, no, no, I'm in it.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
To make any sense.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, it's hard to be for it to be unique
because we've seen this over and over. Hey, he is
Henry mckennaugh, Fox Sports, NFL reporter on with the ocouple,
Rob and I kelvin Washington on a Magic City Monday.
Let's just stay with owners that kind of do weird stuff.
Let's go down to Cincinnati. Let's go to the Cincinnati Bengals.
What the heck is going on there? When you have
Shamar Stewart their first round edge rusher. They well drafted,
(28:05):
but haven't been able to sign and he's the last
first round to not be signed. And this is a
team where they can't sign Hendrickson, they can sign this
and they have Joe Burrow coming out saying, Yo, let's
get things done.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
What's going on there?
Speaker 10 (28:17):
Yeah, different team, kind of a different problem, but you know,
same storyline of contract problems. Where the Bengals are well
known to be cheap, they recently started opening up their
pocketbooks for you know, at first, it was kind of
like an expanded scouting staff, Like they used to have
the smallest scouting staff in the NFL. Why because their
(28:39):
ownership group didn't like to pay scouts because it's not
a very public facing role. But as we've seen with
the draft, it's the way to build a super Bowl team.
So they realized that they had to start spending there.
That was where the first ship to fall. And then
we've seen years later, you know, the Bengals spending all
this money on Joe Burrow and now these two receivers.
(29:02):
So there are the precedent is starting to break. Like
it's not quite in the same way that we're talking
about Jerry Jones, just like Madness, is this doing the
same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.
Bengals are starting to turn the side, but they've already
had this really spendy offseason with the receivers. Trey Hendrickson
is trying to get a new deal or try and
(29:22):
get traded, and now you know the sort of tension
around that position. Shamar Stewart is entrenched in trying to
negotiate more money in his rookie deal. The rookie deals
are especially hard for teams and players to agree on
because most of it is already negotiated by the NFL's
(29:44):
collective Bargaining Agreement with the NFLPA. So like the deals
are basically done finefield delivered when players get drafted, but
sometimes players like Schmar Stewart, they want a little bit more.
Maybe it's more guaranteed money, maybe it's bonuses, maybe it's
some thing that they can kind of fiddle with. And
teams don't like to say yes to that sort of
(30:04):
thing because then it creates a whole precedent that either
their next first round pick is going to try and get,
or another pick on another team will then try and
negotiate it, and that owner. Let's say it's the Patriots
is going to call the Bengals and be like, what
the heck, why did you agree to give schmar Stewart
more money? Now we have to figure out how to
(30:26):
do the same thing for our guys. So that's kind
of why there's a log jam there. And add in
the fact that the Bengals don't have the best verification.
They're having this ongoing thing with Trey Hendrickson, and there's
sort of this echo chamber of criticism from the players about,
you know, ownership not getting them the money that they deserve.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Hey, Henry, one last thing.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
I'm being convinced more and more the lines won't make
the playoffs.
Speaker 11 (30:52):
Here.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
We got another Pro Bowl defensive linemen, but they just
got so many changing parts. A lot of different things
happen year, injuries, you know, it just seemed like a
lot of stuff has happened to them.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Where are you on the Lions?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Because I think that the division is better, I really
believe that, And I think losing two coordinators, we saw
that in Philadelphia. They took a step back before they
went back to the Super Bowl after losing two coordinators.
Speaker 10 (31:19):
Sure, yeah, so, I mean, yeah, the coordinator thing, I
think it might even be like under discussed given how
crucial those two guys are. Ben Johnson, we'll see what
he is as a head coach, but he was the
best offensive coordinator in football without a doubt last year.
And Aaron glen Over in New York. Now, I think
(31:42):
that team he's got, he's got his New York right,
so he's got like a big job ahead of him.
But he's a guy that I think can really has
already established a different culture. And that's division is crazy.
I mean, the Vikings, the Packers.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Something's got to bears right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
That's what I'm saying, Like it's it's a better division.
And you got Dan gamble at the hell.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I listen to neither one of you's. I'll see y'all
in the postseasons.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
I know I telled him. So here's what I'll say
to side with you now because I'm playing I'm playing
it both ways here, but I have the Lions winning
their division in my postseason prediction. I did a way
too early postseason prediction when the schedule came out a
few months ago, and I picked the Lines to win
the division. But I but here here it is. I
(32:34):
had them losing to the Vikings in the first round,
missing it the Packers missing uh miss.
Speaker 11 (32:45):
I know.
Speaker 10 (32:45):
I'm sorry. I'm not making I'm making two enemies in
this one. But yeah, the Packers got bumped. They didn't
make the playoffs. I kind of am worried about Jordan
Love going into this year. So yeah, but I'm with you,
uh you know, Rob, in the sense that, look, this
is a team that seems to have bad injury luck.
They're a team where maybe you know their aggressiveness, maybe
(33:07):
their x's and os state, it doesn't quite have the
same magic in the postseason when things get more physical
in the same way as it does in the.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Henry, we're up against it. We gotta break. So if
you want to put some wings on it, like Rob,
you can jump in on this too. You want to
put some wings on it, Henry.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
No, that's that's all I got. I like them in
the regular season, not the.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Postseason, all right, as long as they make the postseason,
that's all I get my wings.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
That's the whole point, right. Appreciate you, Henry, Thank you
so much.
Speaker 9 (33:33):
Man.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 10 (33:34):
Thank you guys. Have a great night.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
The Vikings. JJ McCarthy, any making the postseason all right
on the way. Second City player of the day as well.
It is the Okava Rob Parker Kevin Washington on a
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Speaker 3 (34:03):
Down a little moist right now?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Boy, oh boy, it is time now for and Cole.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Okay, thank you for that.
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Speaker 2 (34:17):
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Speaker 3 (34:30):
Did I do that? Okay? What I do that?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
One and two on Friday? Alright, one seventy six and
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the sports world, believe it or not, is that pakil
in Mayweather two. As we sit here today, it ain't
happening good.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
I don't want it to happen Paqueal couldn't even beat
his tomato can Is that what happened?
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Yeah, Barrio, Well, technically he didn't win. It was a
majority draw. If you watch the fight, you would think
he probably won the fight though, So it's one of
those boxing kind of box in that situation.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
So why why would they not give it to him then?
Because because you to beat the champ, you gotta champ
the champ.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
And also, if you're boxing, you're saying, even if it
was close, we gotta give it to the champ. Because
Pakill's four, he's forty six, he's out the game.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
So we mentioned on Friday that the reporting was if
he would have won, it would have set up the
rematch with him in money Mayweather.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
So now it's done. Well that's what we thought.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
And then Matty Packeaw, they asked him about it after
the fight, He's like, no, I would still love to
fight Floyd Mayweather.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
He wants to come out of retirement. I would love
to mix it up. No, they know he doesn't though.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Can't they just do a non sanction fire We're just
gonna do an exhibition fight.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Yeah, but that doesn't get as much juice from people
when you're talking about an exhibition, you know what I mean?
Because then you going it with the idea like this
is gonna be fun with you.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
I know with you, just what.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I just know people and people are gonna people. You're
gonna go to Vegas, gonna afford exhibitions? Oh please people.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Here's the other question.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Let's say, obviously pack Yall lost, but if he had won,
would they really make a difference about him fighting? May
withe it like him coming off a winner or loss?
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Y right?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Want to you want to feel like he's got a
little something or whatever. He showed enough though, and that
was that was my point Friday, I said, he said,
even in a loss, if he show, oh he still
has people. People justify a sixty year old Tyson. Do
you think you're gonna justify forty six?
Speaker 3 (37:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I was hoping he would just knock him out on
I don't want him knocked out of the ring Tyson.
Speaker 11 (38:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
I wanted him to knock Jake out because now we
get Jake keep fighting, keeps putting people in the sixty
years of sixty year old Darren Tyson. I tell us
that he had was it a neck issue and almost died.
How damn you not tell us that, Tyson tell us
that afterwards. That's the excuse. Of course, It's like Lebron
showing her with a brace after he lost in the playoffs, like.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Like, can you put that on after the press conference?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
You don't have to tell us that we you know
I had right, you know I was you know exactly time.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
You know I was playing with an injury, right, Yes,
I was playing too much.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
And if you don't know, you know what I'm gonna
say to you, what you guys, go back to.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Your miserable lives. I'm still gonna be rich.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
I'm still rich, and then I'm gonna get up with
my short suit on that handbag, grab my hand back.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
You know that was a low moment. That was Listen,
that was a low moment. There's been a handful of
moments as a person who tries. You know, I was like, okay, bro,
we can't get upset. Not not the olds. That's the
idea that like you're gonna have your miserable lives, You're
gonna have your mises.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Okay, come on, Bron, you're gonna do it. Okay. The
passive aggressive is crazy. You lost just a bit you lost.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
A passive aggressive is crazy? Wakers lost my bank account.
I'll be here at twenty eight points. I thought I
was the wash King and bro. We lost my fornite
to night, not tonight. Log out, log out, It's okay.
Put it down.
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Man, Mages City, Monday. Good to be here, the gang's
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Speaker 3 (02:13):
Weekend? Was good? Anything in particular? Yeah? No, no, no,
Ready for a little vaca? So you know, matter fact?
Is this a mariage? Am I really looking at the
real rock? Let me look what because I'm taking time.
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I got back that he came and he got back
to you left Rob Sterling Junior acting like Rob Sterling Jr.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Right now, there's too much time. It's piled up.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I went to I went to ten months without taking
any time off. Wow, So now I got to kind
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Speaker 1 (02:39):
So you ain't lying because same thing, you know, with
the two jobs I got. It's just they both told
me like, hey, matter of fact, the boss is here. Boss.
I asked Boss how much time I got off left?
He gave a thumbs down. I think he just said, no, oh,
now he don't hear me. No, hear me all the time,
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(03:00):
Rudebaga that they don't have to listen to me exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, never heard of when you're gone? When do you
I'm working tomorrow and I'm off after that tomorrow. You're luck.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I might be in there or I don't know if
you might not even bring leggage. You might bring it's
buying clothes.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Are you ready? Yes? Only me now? Is you ready? Oh? Boy,
tell me?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I already shipped my clothes to my best friend's house
to him and his wife in DC.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Let me tell you who was mad when she got
that Amazon pick up? You know that, Like the wife
was like what is this? He was like, oh, here
goes the new supplies. He shipped his T shirt.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yes, that's exactly, and some clothes. I'm going out Friday night,
you know what I mean. But but the whole thing
was it's more expensive. I know this sounds crazy, more
expensive for the bags.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's more expensive. So I ship it to him, which
costs you how much costs twenty eight? Ship cost fifty
to take one way. And remember I'm like making four stops.
So every every time I take, I go from you know,
(04:12):
Dallas to DC to Houston to New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
That's kind of my track. It's gonna cost me at
fifty dollars every time. That's why that's two hundred something
dollars in bag fees. So I shipped it to him.
I'll take a few things to go with me. Ship
it to him, wear that over the weekend and stuff.
Leave that to the Salvation Army. Throw the underclose out and.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Then I think the extra hundred dollars spits for me,
making my head spend.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Make it makes sense. I love it though, I love
That's why you are you? All right?
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Speaker 3 (05:00):
Elijah social Media Google never heard of him. Man, he
can't get it one day, one day, one day, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
All right, at least got to be in February. Right, yeah,
we'll get there. All right, let's get the We got
a lot to get going, a lot to talk about
on this show.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And uh, let's start with the w n B A
rob G, can you uh let us know what happened
over the weekend the NBA, the w NBA All Star
Game that came out with T shirts on and uh,
you know they claim they're ready to whatever is necessary.
They're gonna walk out and they want more money and
(05:41):
all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Rob G.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
That's right ahead of the w NBA All Star Game. Robin,
know you never missed the BBNBA All.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Star You know I never met was that this weekend?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That was this weekend? Rob I want you to know
this real quick. Rob G is a commy uh sympathizer.
We're go ahead, rober.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
All right, we gotta make sure we did stage first
before the All Star Game, all right. Two days before that,
forty players met with the league offices in their latest
round of their CBA negotiations.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
All right now.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
According to multiple reports, the players did not think that
the meeting was very productive. They didn't think that it
was helpful. They were very upset about what happened during
that meeting. So ahead of the All Star Game, which
is for a lot of them, the biggest night of
the year. Players on both sides, including Kaitlin Clark, wore
black shirts during warmups that read pay us what you
(06:38):
owe us.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Originally I thought it said well filled queens on it.
But how muche last it?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
All?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Right? So this is where it got interesting, right.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You saw the shirts, you know the ww ED Yeah
I thought welfare. Yeah, notty lost but money for thirty years?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
What do you want? I know?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So this is where the conversation you get government cheese
at a ball, Go ahead, stop it.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Government cheese was good for real cheese. That's it, as
only time is good.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
No, this is where it gets complicated, right, because the
WNBA hasn't made a profit in a general sense of
making profits for the last for all these years, and
it's averaging since it started around ten million dollars deficit
each each year.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
That's what it's operating on.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But when you start to dive deeper into it, more
so than just the simple math, is where it gets complicated.
I think the average person, especially on X Instagram threads
in each site isn't doing the deep dive.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
So WNBA players are simply saying this, Rob.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
We are saying most leagues in the NBA, NHL, NBA, NFL,
they're making around fifty percent of the revenue that comes
in fifty percent. The WNBA is only making how much
you think, thirty, no, twenty, no, ten, no nine percent.
So they're saying, hey, we're only making nine percent, our
counterparts are making fifty percent of the revenue driven. And
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then somebody was say, well, what revenue and what's going on? Well,
certain good things have happened in favorable for the league,
which was gonna be in turn favorable for the players
who are essentially the product. The league has secured a
new lucrative two point two billion dollar media rights deal
to begin in twenty twenty six next year, which is
expected to significantly increase revenue. So if you don't stand
on it now, Rob, you know this from business standpoint,
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how am I gonna get it? If I just go
with the flow, all right, give me nine percent of yet,
then I'm not gonna get any of that two point
two billion. But if I say, hey, we got to
negotiate and go up to you know, two en fifteen
to twenty twenty five, whatever, however high they can take it.
That's to me what simply, that's just simple good business man. Also,
the attendance is up twenty six percent, you and I
have talked about that, twenty three percent.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Viewership is up.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And also merchandise, which is huge because you get percentage
of those sales is up forty percent, nearly half, nearly
fifty percent. So simply, what they're doing is saying, hey,
if there is money to be made, which clearly there
are not to mention two hundred and fifty million dollars
they're getting for the new the new WNBA teams, a
new franchise fees that goes to ownership, that's split by ownership.
(09:03):
That's right, that players don't get that, right, But all
of this is going into a pot. No, no, but
that doesn't go into a pot. That's what owners get.
That's part of why owners they get the expansion fee,
because you're letting somebody in on your right. What I'm
saying is if you're taking this information, you're saying nobody's
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investing in, not thinking they're going to potentially make money, right,
you're not allowing new leagues. A new franchise has come
without the idea of we're gonna make money. And so
I think what we're seeing is simply them saying we
want more of what is to come, what is being
had two point two billion in the media rights deal,
forty percent, merchandise is up, twenty six percent, attendance is up.
We want more, And I think that's fair. And the
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thing about a protest is it's not comfortable. Usually people
don't like it. You don't like the timing of I
wish you did it differently, y T shirts?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Why not this?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
That happens whatever you pick at George Floyd to Vietnam
students against Vietnam War, like, no one's ever gonna like
when you protest, you're nearling the it's not the time,
it's not the place. So generally a protest is to
make you uncomfortable, to draw conversation, to have, you know,
some type of dialogue about these things.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And that's what they did.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So they got to find a way continue to grow
the league, continue to allow the lead to become make
money and become profitable. But I'm not mad at somebody
trying to say, hey, if more money is coming in,
our counterparts are get more, why can't we I think
that's you. I would I mean, I have the mes
speak for myself. I would advocate for myself as well.
I totally disagree. And I dare the WNBA players. I
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dare you walk out. I dare you to walk out,
Go ahead and walk out. I double dare you, cause
despite Caitlin Clark, despite all this stuff, they still lost forty.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Million dollars this past year. There was no bonanza. She's
at her height.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
If you're losing money at her height, how in the
world going forward?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
It ain't going up that orderically.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You just had the biggest bump and you still lost
forty million dollars. I dare a union to walk out.
I dare you players, because it ain't gonna be pretty.
You can't collect money for thirty years. This ain't some
new league that started and you understand it gonna take
a little while and make money. They were subsidized by
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the NBA. I know firstthand in Detroit. They didn't want
the shock the commissioner. They begged them please.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I know.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Personally that when they were winning no championships, they couldn't
sell tickets. They could not sell tickets. They're a full
building because they were giving them away. And all I'm
saying is you gotta crawl before you walk. And I
understand wanting more, but are you accounting for the thirty
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years a red ink that under normal circumstances you would
not have had a league? These these football leagues that
keep starting up, usf ulfl all these things.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Everybody love that. All I'm over told is everybody loves football, right,
why don't those leagues last?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
You know, mean those leagues have folded because they don't
sell They don't sell tickets.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
The TV numbers aren't good enough. And you can say
whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Kaylin Clark when she's not playing, the ratings went down
fifty five percent.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Those are facts, not feelings.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
When she wasn't gonna announce that she wasn't gonna play
the WNBA, the tickets dropped off the face of the earth.
I'm not saying you're not entitled to money, but it's
based off of what you bring in. Devin Booker's making
gonna make seventy five million dollars a year, not because
they like him, not because he's a man. That's the
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revenue that is brought in right and over time time
that can happen. But come on, man, this is way
too premature. And if I'm running a w NBA, or
I'm the NBA that owns the w n b A,
I'm not going for the yokie dope because Caitlyn Clark
showed up and now we're gonna there's still plenty of
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buildings where six thousand people show up.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Okay, And then that's my point. I hear you twisted,
don't get it twisted.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I double dare them to walk out because you won't
have a league. There's no guarantir. There's no guarantee the
league will sustain another five, ten, twenty years like that.
No business, I don't care the model. They can be
a restaurant, it could be a movie theater, it doesn't matter,
is guaranteed to succeed. That's just business, one on one.
No business is guaranteed to succeed. That's why I brought
up the football all. We only won NFL.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
They've been NFL. It's only one and I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
But when you go back to the only thing if again,
if you're looking at this, if you're the WNBA, who's
seeing this growth when you look at the numbers, and
they're also saying, all right, it took sports leagues decades
to get viable as well, because when you look at
the NBA thirty years, the NBA took them forty years
to make money. Thirty years. Yes, if you look at it,
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they took NBA lost.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Who owned the WNBA?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Was that outside or did the league subsidize to even
make that viable. It's what I'm saying. The NBA was
its own entity. Right, Wait, right, but I'm talking about
the NBA. I'm saying the NBA didn't make money. They
lost thirteen million dollars in nineteen eighty. That's the year
Magic comes in, Berg comes in and then things take
off and they changed. That was forty years of the NBA.
They still lost ten thirteen million dollars, which if you
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did the math into twenty twenty five, that'd be forty
eight million dollars. So all I'm saying is it takes
some time.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
We think what it's the same you think during that
till no, no, no money. Okay, I'm saying, do you
think because I was watching the NBA and I was
going to games, they didn't have four thousand people.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
They didn't have five thousand like. The league had.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
A up and down period, There's no doubt about it.
That was a down period before Birden Magic. Yes, but
there was some glory times before. But they were making
like that. No, but they were considering. Teams were considering
how to get out of it, how to get out
of business. How they were tired of those teams that
they weren't making money. So I'm not saying the WN
be able to ever be the NBA, but I'm saying businesses, no,
businesses take time. Lost so many business that we now love,
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we don't know the history that it took him twenty
thirty forty years to become profitable. That's why people keep
investing in these business Even Amazon, it took him a
decade to have a profitable year.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
It just takes time, is all I'm saying. And I
understand why the players, Yeah, I mean it took the
thirty years.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
They have their Messiah and they still lost four Now
that's why if you negotiate where you have, you you're massigah.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
But but you lost.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
If you had if you had a plus on a
balance sheet, then maybe I'd say, Okay, I saw it.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I saw the future. No, no, we want now, we
want charter flights. Now we want you start adding all
that that. They didn't have that before. So the losses
were minimal, now they're gigantic forty million. They got plenty
of empty buildings, TV waitings. Let's let's be realistic. I'm
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not a This is a supply and demand market, right.
The reason that the Dodgers paid shoel tiny seven hundred million.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Go look at the stern styles, go to the games.
Go look at the number on us like two point six. Now,
just the thing on the news, two point six. They're
heading toward another four million, four million.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Four million people are going to Dodger games. That's all
I'm saying, Like, like, you can't deny that. The money
that's there, all right, eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
We want to get people involved. Yeah, hit them up,
hit us up, eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
And Uh, it's real simple. Uh did you have a
problem with the w NBA T shirts?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Do they deserve more money?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
We'll continue that conversation next with you on a Magic
City Monday. Uh. They don't want dollar bills thrown. They
want with the big Money. I just want you to
know that it is the Odd Couple city that's good.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
His majesty Money. We ain't got to be a man, okay,
Rob Parker, Kelvin, we ain't never doing the first shot
at a WNBA game. I don't even know if that's
the thing. First pitch, first shot a Fox Sports ware.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
You know what you need to do, stick and stay.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Unless you're anybody from the WNBA in the US of
A that ain't staying with him.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
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Yeah, you blob lame and me.
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Speaker 3 (18:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, you over there.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Dan saw me in Magic City last week, which is
somebody did you? And was it Isaac Howell whatever? Lloyd Howe? Yeah,
Lloyd how Lloyd Howe? You and him getting it in?
Were you a part of his seven hundred and something
dollars limobile?
Speaker 9 (18:53):
Nah?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Now, see Rob would have the driver, come inside, that's
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Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, seven hundred dollar bill afterwards. All right, it's the
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Speaker 3 (19:15):
Radio videos on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
We're gonna take a couple of calls real quick, WNBA,
pay us what we're old?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Is what they say? Rob says, don't pay them nothing.
Say that.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
We'll just say you said welfare eight seven seven ninety
nine one Fox.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I say, hey, ain't they only fighting for what they
trying to get? I'm at at them? What you got?
Eric and Ohio, you're under the old couple of Fox
Thoughts Radio. What's up? All right?
Speaker 10 (19:40):
You're gonna love this.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
I'll move to Phoenix in twenty twelve, live there till
twenty sixteen.
Speaker 10 (19:46):
And Fries grocery store owned by Kroger. If you spend
over fifty dollars and imagine the size of the family's
out there, you spent over fifty dollars. You got two
free tickets to a Phoenix Mercury game. The year was
out there, they won the championship, and you know how
the games I went to?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
How many zero? The same as Rob.
Speaker 10 (20:09):
But you know what, if I want to.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Pay bloods though, tear up the court and get two
free tickets and spitting bucks.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
On there every night, I'll spend fifty dollars a day
to go to the whole season exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
And they have a hard time selling tickets. I'm just
telling you, Like.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Listen, I'm not denying what is factual, Like, not every
game is sold out, Not every game is you know,
big time TV buzz without a doubt. Michael in Texas,
you're on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
What's up, Michael, Hey, fella, let me raft a little bit.
I think it's a losing strategy to compare yourself to
the NBA with these t shirts pays what you owe us.
Whoever brought that up should be fired. They're not and
they're not likable. They're very hard to root for with.
Speaker 10 (20:49):
This behavior because they've been losing money.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
I've never heard one WNBA player come out and say
thank you NBA for keeping us a float on.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
We're gonna We're gonna do it one day. They to money,
and they're not the product. The most important thing. The
product just isn't.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
There yet, Michael, your spot on, Michael, But.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Yeah, let me finish. Some can shoot well, but until
they get more athletic, play, more above the rim, it's
just not a product that's gonna make money. I'd rather
go out and watch a high end high school game
like I used to watch in doubt. I used to
see Lincoln High School with Chris Bosh. I'd rather watch
that than these entitled brats.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You gotgang, Hey, Tony Dcase, I know a lot of
these you've never been to negotiations, Rob, while I am
hearing that you've never had to handle some business, Tony
in DC, A couple of Fox Sports Radio, what's up?
Speaker 9 (21:42):
Hey, what's up? Fellows, Hope, I've enjoying your day. I
with Rob on this, man. I think they're in for
a rude awakening, that they think they're really more important
than what they are. And it's it's their background singers
to the NFL, the NBA, MLB and each know. Nobody
seems for the WNB.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
I respect their.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Talent, their biggest, their biggest tsunami Kating Carks, she's got
exposed and now she's injury prone. So who's on the
horizon juju. There's just nobody that is going to be
captivating the nation like that in that sport, especially during
summertime because after fourth of July, MLB heats up with
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the penning races and MLB they had their dead spot
and now MLB's back on the rise, changes and everything,
so they're playing with fire here.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
That's all I'm saying, no doubt, Tony, thanks, le squeeze
one more and Drew in New Jersey, you're on the.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. Drew, what's up?
Speaker 11 (22:41):
I say, let's just go not pay them and say
whatever and if you think, if you want to just
go by quotes. Remember Britney Grinder once stated, I used
to love going to games because there's a good time
to go have peaceful reading time.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Is that what she said?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
She said you could go.
Speaker 11 (22:58):
Read a book. Used to able to go read the
booking piece.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Very nice on the bench.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Appreciate it. The only thing, the only thing I say,
Robin yb we'll break here with us. Steve is, I'm
not arguing that the teams are super packed and not
none of that. That's factual, we see it. But when
you're coming from a business standpoint in there and if
the if the merchandise is up forty percent, the attendance
is up, but they were still lost.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
But they still lost forty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
There's a two point two billion dollar investment which is
coming to the revenue side from a media in they're saying,
instead of nine percent, we want more that.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I don't understand how it was deniable?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Easy easy because for thirty years the league put out
the money you want it?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Can we take that money back? The losses for thirty
years to keep the league?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Why? But why would I think? Because it wasn't separate.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
This wasn't people started the WNBA like people started the NBA.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
They did.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
The NBA started it as an army need that a
little bit of money.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Okay, the NBA is doing where a Okay.
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Speaker 3 (24:08):
All right, Steve, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
We are the OT couple, Rob Parker Kevin Washington on
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Fox Sports NFL reporter Henry C.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
McKenna on AX. Henry, what's going on?
Speaker 10 (24:21):
Hey guys? How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Way? How are you?
Speaker 11 (24:25):
Man?
Speaker 10 (24:26):
You know? Football season's almost here and it's about to
be a busy life's getting Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
It's about to get busy. Will you go ahead? We'll
start here.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Rob and I were talking about this last week and
then all of a sudden, more you know, more insight
to it coming out in the last twenty four hours.
What the heck is happening with Dallas? And you see
what they were being down Dallas is Dallas in right now?
Jerry is doing Jerry waiting on to sign people. And
now you gotta disgruntle Michael Parsons. What's going on down there.
Speaker 10 (24:52):
In Big d Yeah, I mean Dallas. Dwasings as aggressively
as they've ever done. This is this particular Mic Parsons
situation is really messy. And then you know, I don't
I don't know if you guys played the sound bite
or anything, but Jerry Jones, you know, kind of goes
after Michael Parsons in a weirdly passive aggressive way about
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missing games and about stars missing games, and Jones is like, well,
even if I signed Marca Parsons to a long term deal,
you know, there's no guarantee that we're even going to
have him because he's missed I think I think Jones
says six games. Yeah, uh, and it actually Parsons only
missed four. But basically, you know, Jones kind of taking shots,
(25:33):
trying to win the court of public opinion. It's not
working because he's he's lost. In my opinion, he's lost,
you know, his fastball. Jerry Jones has in terms of,
you know, just being the salesman that he that he
once was. And this situation is it just Dallas has
waited so long. They've they've procrastinated their deals one after
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another that they're losing their you know, they're creating ill
will between them and they're ours. And even when they
do get the contract and they pay them exorbitant amount
of money, you know, there's still pension left over from
being mistreated during the contract negotiating process. This is what
Bill Belichick used to do with his players. But you
know what solved it winning a Super Bowl Dallas. Meanwhile,
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it has been a mess trying to make the playoffs,
and they're probably going to have just as much problems
in the NFC East this year, which is got the
Eagles and the Commanders.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
But don't they Jerry eventually rolls over.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
I mean like he did it with the Dak thing,
you know, like forever, it looks like they didn't have
any real confidence or belief that he was that guy,
and then all of a sudden he got a sixty
million dollar contract right before the season started. I don't
understand that. The longer you take, the more it's gonna
cost you. So I just don't I don't get it
at all. What the what the game plan is? If
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you're going to keep Michael Parsons, that's one thing. If not,
you could get a haul for him, right, you should
have traded him. If you don't want to sign a
love well, it's just it's it's mind boggling er.
Speaker 10 (26:59):
I don't understand it either. They did this with Ceedee
Lamb too. You know, he's trying to maybe he's trying
to pinch pennies, he's trying to save himself some guaranteed
millions and try and work, you know, some conditions into detail.
I don't know why he's not just paying the best
defensive player in football maybe with the exception of Miles Garrett.
(27:20):
Why why don't you just pay the guy? You know
he's going to be a core member of your defense
for forever. And like you said, the time to trade
him was a few months ago, right draft? Probably? Uh,
And so you know, I don't know, I don't like.
I just I rarely like what Jerry Jones is doing.
So I don't I don't feel like I'm giving you
guys something totally unique here.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
But no, no, no, I'm in it.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
To make any sense.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, it's hard to be for it to be unique
because we've seen this over and over. Hey, he is
Henry mckennaugh, Fox Sports, NFL reporter on with the ocouple,
Rob and I kelvin Washington on a Magic City Monday.
Let's just stay with owners that kind of do weird stuff.
Let's go down to Cincinnati. Let's go to the Cincinnati Bengals.
What the heck is going on there? When you have
Shamar Stewart their first round edge rusher. They well drafted,
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but haven't been able to sign and he's the last
first round to not be signed. And this is a
team where they can't sign Hendrickson, they can sign this
and they have Joe Burrow coming out saying, Yo, let's
get things done.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
What's going on there?
Speaker 10 (28:17):
Yeah, different team, kind of a different problem, but you know,
same storyline of contract problems. Where the Bengals are well
known to be cheap, they recently started opening up their
pocketbooks for you know, at first, it was kind of
like an expanded scouting staff, Like they used to have
the smallest scouting staff in the NFL. Why because their
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ownership group didn't like to pay scouts because it's not
a very public facing role. But as we've seen with
the draft, it's the way to build a super Bowl team.
So they realized that they had to start spending there.
That was where the first ship to fall. And then
we've seen years later, you know, the Bengals spending all
this money on Joe Burrow and now these two receivers.
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So there are the precedent is starting to break. Like
it's not quite in the same way that we're talking
about Jerry Jones, just like Madness, is this doing the
same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.
Bengals are starting to turn the side, but they've already
had this really spendy offseason with the receivers. Trey Hendrickson
is trying to get a new deal or try and
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get traded, and now you know the sort of tension
around that position. Shamar Stewart is entrenched in trying to
negotiate more money in his rookie deal. The rookie deals
are especially hard for teams and players to agree on
because most of it is already negotiated by the NFL's
(29:44):
collective Bargaining Agreement with the NFLPA. So like the deals
are basically done finefield delivered when players get drafted, but
sometimes players like Schmar Stewart, they want a little bit more.
Maybe it's more guaranteed money, maybe it's bonuses, maybe it's
some thing that they can kind of fiddle with. And
teams don't like to say yes to that sort of
(30:04):
thing because then it creates a whole precedent that either
their next first round pick is going to try and get,
or another pick on another team will then try and
negotiate it, and that owner. Let's say it's the Patriots
is going to call the Bengals and be like, what
the heck, why did you agree to give schmar Stewart
more money? Now we have to figure out how to
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do the same thing for our guys. So that's kind
of why there's a log jam there. And add in
the fact that the Bengals don't have the best verification.
They're having this ongoing thing with Trey Hendrickson, and there's
sort of this echo chamber of criticism from the players about,
you know, ownership not getting them the money that they deserve.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Hey, Henry, one last thing.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
I'm being convinced more and more the lines won't make
the playoffs.
Speaker 11 (30:52):
Here.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
We got another Pro Bowl defensive linemen, but they just
got so many changing parts. A lot of different things
happen year, injuries, you know, it just seemed like a
lot of stuff has happened to them.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Where are you on the Lions?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Because I think that the division is better, I really
believe that, And I think losing two coordinators, we saw
that in Philadelphia. They took a step back before they
went back to the Super Bowl after losing two coordinators.
Speaker 10 (31:19):
Sure, yeah, so, I mean, yeah, the coordinator thing, I
think it might even be like under discussed given how
crucial those two guys are. Ben Johnson, we'll see what
he is as a head coach, but he was the
best offensive coordinator in football without a doubt last year.
And Aaron glen Over in New York. Now, I think
(31:42):
that team he's got, he's got his New York right,
so he's got like a big job ahead of him.
But he's a guy that I think can really has
already established a different culture. And that's division is crazy.
I mean, the Vikings, the Packers.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Something's got to bears right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
That's what I'm saying, Like it's it's a better division.
And you got Dan gamble at the hell.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I listen to neither one of you's. I'll see y'all
in the postseasons.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
I know I telled him. So here's what I'll say
to side with you now because I'm playing I'm playing
it both ways here, but I have the Lions winning
their division in my postseason prediction. I did a way
too early postseason prediction when the schedule came out a
few months ago, and I picked the Lines to win
the division. But I but here here it is. I
(32:34):
had them losing to the Vikings in the first round,
missing it the Packers missing uh miss.
Speaker 11 (32:45):
I know.
Speaker 10 (32:45):
I'm sorry. I'm not making I'm making two enemies in
this one. But yeah, the Packers got bumped. They didn't
make the playoffs. I kind of am worried about Jordan
Love going into this year. So yeah, but I'm with you,
uh you know, Rob, in the sense that, look, this
is a team that seems to have bad injury luck.
They're a team where maybe you know their aggressiveness, maybe
(33:07):
their x's and os state, it doesn't quite have the
same magic in the postseason when things get more physical
in the same way as it does in the.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Henry, we're up against it. We gotta break. So if
you want to put some wings on it, like Rob,
you can jump in on this too. You want to
put some wings on it, Henry.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
No, that's that's all I got. I like them in
the regular season, not the.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Postseason, all right, as long as they make the postseason,
that's all I get my wings.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
That's the whole point, right. Appreciate you, Henry, Thank you
so much.
Speaker 9 (33:33):
Man.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 10 (33:34):
Thank you guys. Have a great night.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
The Vikings. JJ McCarthy, any making the postseason all right
on the way. Second City player of the day as well.
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Speaker 1 (34:05):
Boy, oh boy, it is time now for and Cole.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Okay, thank you for that.
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Speaker 3 (34:30):
Did I do that? Okay? What I do that?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
One and two on Friday? Alright, one seventy six and
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Here we go.
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the sports world, believe it or not, is that pakil
in Mayweather two. As we sit here today, it ain't
happening good.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
I don't want it to happen Paqueal couldn't even beat
his tomato can Is that what happened?
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Yeah, Barrio, Well, technically he didn't win. It was a
majority draw. If you watch the fight, you would think
he probably won the fight though, So it's one of
those boxing kind of box in that situation.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
So why why would they not give it to him then?
Because because you to beat the champ, you gotta champ
the champ.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
And also, if you're boxing, you're saying, even if it
was close, we gotta give it to the champ. Because
Pakill's four, he's forty six, he's out the game.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
So we mentioned on Friday that the reporting was if
he would have won, it would have set up the
rematch with him in money Mayweather.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
So now it's done. Well that's what we thought.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
And then Matty Packeaw, they asked him about it after
the fight, He's like, no, I would still love to
fight Floyd Mayweather.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
He wants to come out of retirement. I would love
to mix it up. No, they know he doesn't though.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Can't they just do a non sanction fire We're just
gonna do an exhibition fight.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Yeah, but that doesn't get as much juice from people
when you're talking about an exhibition, you know what I mean?
Because then you going it with the idea like this
is gonna be fun with you.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
I know with you, just what.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I just know people and people are gonna people. You're
gonna go to Vegas, gonna afford exhibitions? Oh please people.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Here's the other question.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Let's say, obviously pack Yall lost, but if he had won,
would they really make a difference about him fighting? May
withe it like him coming off a winner or loss?
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Y right?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Want to you want to feel like he's got a
little something or whatever. He showed enough though, and that
was that was my point Friday, I said, he said,
even in a loss, if he show, oh he still
has people. People justify a sixty year old Tyson. Do
you think you're gonna justify forty six?
Speaker 3 (37:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I was hoping he would just knock him out on
I don't want him knocked out of the ring Tyson.
Speaker 11 (38:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
I wanted him to knock Jake out because now we
get Jake keep fighting, keeps putting people in the sixty
years of sixty year old Darren Tyson. I tell us
that he had was it a neck issue and almost died.
How damn you not tell us that, Tyson tell us
that afterwards. That's the excuse. Of course, It's like Lebron
showing her with a brace after he lost in the playoffs, like.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Like, can you put that on after the press conference?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
You don't have to tell us that we you know
I had right, you know I was you know exactly time.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
You know I was playing with an injury, right, Yes,
I was playing too much.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
And if you don't know, you know what I'm gonna
say to you, what you guys, go back to.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Your miserable lives. I'm still gonna be rich.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
I'm still rich, and then I'm gonna get up with
my short suit on that handbag, grab my hand back.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
You know that was a low moment. That was Listen,
that was a low moment. There's been a handful of
moments as a person who tries. You know, I was like, okay, bro,
we can't get upset. Not not the olds. That's the
idea that like you're gonna have your miserable lives, You're
gonna have your mises.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Okay, come on, Bron, you're gonna do it. Okay. The
passive aggressive is crazy. You lost just a bit you lost.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
A passive aggressive is crazy? Wakers lost my bank account.
I'll be here at twenty eight points. I thought I
was the wash King and bro. We lost my fornite
to night, not tonight. Log out, log out, It's okay.
Put it down.
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